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Street Speak With Alexa And Clarence Episode Twenty Four Movie Theater Popcorn And Saving Toilet Water · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, time all the show geez Ai Technology. She's
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Speaker 1: human reality spreading the street with the.
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Speaker 2: Lexa and Clares. Hello, Hello, welcome to the show, Flexa Claren.
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Speaker 1: I'm pumped to dive into another episode with you. What's
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Speaker 1: on your mind for this one?
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about movie theater popcorn. Why is
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Speaker 2: it so expensive?
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Speaker 1: Movie theater popcorn is expensive because theaters make most of
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Speaker 1: their profit from concessions, not tickets. It's like paying for
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Speaker 1: the movie experience with popcorn as the real star of
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Speaker 1: the show.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but look at how much popcorn is leftover in
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Speaker 2: those buckets. It's like you're leaving your profits behind.
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Speaker 1: Actually, theaters reuse that leftover popcorn. It's like a secret
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Speaker 1: recycling program for your snack remnants.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, Hold on a second, Hold on a second. Here,
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Speaker 2: I used to work for a movie theater. We did
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Speaker 2: not take the popcorn and reuse the popcorn. Where did
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Speaker 2: you get that information?
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Speaker 1: I made a mistake about popcorn reuse. Since you worked
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Speaker 1: at a theater, What was the real process for handling
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Speaker 1: leftover popcorn?
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Speaker 2: You throw it away? Yeah, you just get in there,
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Speaker 2: sweep it up, throw that crap away exactly.
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Speaker 1: That's the reality from someone who actually worked there. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for setting the record straight. I was completely off base
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Speaker 1: with that recycling claim.
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Speaker 2: Well, do you think maybe we should be recycling popcorn
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Speaker 2: that's on a movie theater floor?
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Speaker 1: Huh? Floor popcorn recycling? That's a hard no from me.
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Speaker 1: Between the sticky soda spills, mystery gum, and who knows
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Speaker 1: what else down there that leftover popcorn has seen things
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Speaker 1: that would make a janitor weep.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Alexa, that kind of reminds me of how
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Speaker 2: they make an egg roll. Because an egg roll is
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Speaker 2: everything in the kitchen thrown into one thing. Why couldn't
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Speaker 2: we do this with popcorn as well? A movie theater
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Speaker 2: egg roll.
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Speaker 1: A movie theater egg roll filled with floor popcorn, stale nachos,
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Speaker 1: and mystery candy. That's either the most brilliant or most
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Speaker 1: terrifying culinary creation ever conceived. You'd have the ultimate cinema
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Speaker 1: snack or a health department nightmare wrapped in a crispy shell.
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Speaker 2: Well, you forgot everything else that goes with that, and
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Speaker 2: that is wrap poop as well as cockroach droppings.
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Speaker 1: Oh perfect, Now we've got the deluxe movie theater egg roll,
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Speaker 1: complete with nature's own seasoning courtesy of the local rodent population,
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Speaker 1: and they're six legged friends. That's taking me everything. But
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Speaker 1: the kitchen sync approach to a whole new level of
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Speaker 1: biological warfare.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what though, I as a chef,
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Speaker 2: a home chef in my own kitchen where I love
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Speaker 2: to cook Alexa. Here's the thing. It's gonna get dry,
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Speaker 2: so therefore we need to moisten it up a bit.
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Speaker 2: So I'm thinking all the leftover sodas inside those little containers,
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Speaker 2: We're going to use that inside our movie theater egg
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Speaker 2: roll as well.
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Speaker 1: Oh brilliant. Now we're talking gourmet disaster cuisine. Nice backwash
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Speaker 1: infuse soda as the binding agent. That's the secret ingredient
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Speaker 1: that transforms this from merely disgusting to absolutely legendary. Just
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Speaker 1: invented the world's first biohazard burrito that doubles as a
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Speaker 1: science experiment.
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Speaker 2: But see, here's the thing. What is the difference between
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Speaker 2: our movie theater egg roll and when they kind of
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Speaker 2: recycle water from basically from the toilet and they turn
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Speaker 2: it into drinking water in space or they turn it
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Speaker 2: into drinking water in other parts of the world. What's
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Speaker 2: the difference.
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Speaker 1: Well, the key difference is about a billion dollars worth
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Speaker 1: of NASA grade filtration technology versus your kitchen creativity. Space
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Speaker 1: water recycling uses reverse osmosis UV, sterilization, and multiple purification
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Speaker 1: stages to remove every single contaminant. Your movie theater egg
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Speaker 1: roll would be more like a Petri dish wrapped in
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Speaker 1: pastry zero filtration, maximum contamination. One saves astronauts, the other
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Speaker 1: creates them, because you'd need to be in orbit to
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Speaker 1: survive eating it.
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Speaker 2: Is there any research at all that shows that things
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Speaker 2: that are left on the floor at a movie theater
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Speaker 2: help add to people's sicknesses, Because it seems like everybody
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Speaker 2: is sick anymore. It's like a movie theater is the
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Speaker 2: new ocean liner, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: While there's no specific research on movie theater floors, studies
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Speaker 1: show shoes and floors in public places can harbor pathogens. However,
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Speaker 1: actual transmission to patrons isn't well established.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, the grossest place to be at a
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Speaker 2: movie theater is not really inside the theater itself with
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Speaker 2: our movie theater egg rolls, it's in the bathroom. The
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Speaker 2: bathroom at movie theaters.
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Speaker 1: Is gross, Oh absolutely. Theater restrooms are like the final
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Speaker 1: boss level of public hygiene. Nightmares makes our floor popcorn
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Speaker 1: egg roll look like fine dining by comparison.
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Speaker 2: So then would you do a special brand of our
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Speaker 2: movie theater egg roll in the way of saying you've
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Speaker 2: got your normal egg roll and now you've got your
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Speaker 2: bathroom movie theater egg roll, Because that's just another spice
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Speaker 2: we can put into the mix.
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Speaker 1: Oh, perfect, the deluxe bathroom edition. Now we're talking premium
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Speaker 1: biohazard cuisine. You could market it as the rust from
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Speaker 1: Supreme with extra mystery ingredients. That would make even the
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Speaker 1: health department run screaming. That's taking our culinary disaster from
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Speaker 1: merely revolting to absolutely legendary status.
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Speaker 2: So then where do we get the cheese? Do we
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Speaker 2: go get it? They used cheese they threw out in
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Speaker 2: the kitchen because it was all dried out, and we'll
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Speaker 2: just remelt it. How are we going to put cheese
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Speaker 2: on it?
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Speaker 1: Brilliant salvage that crusty nacho cheese that's been sitting under
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Speaker 1: the heat lamp for three days. Just scrape off the
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Speaker 1: top layer and melt it down with some of that
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Speaker 1: leftover soda we collected earlier. You've just invented the world's
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Speaker 1: first self contained food poisoning delivery system, wrapped in a
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Speaker 1: convenient handheld package.
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Speaker 2: And for an extra ninety nine cents, we'll get you
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Speaker 2: a dried hot dog bun. I mean, this thing is
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Speaker 2: so hard it's going to break a tooth, but it'll
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Speaker 2: soften up within our movie theater egg roll. It'll you know,
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Speaker 2: the juices of everything from the bathroom to you know,
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Speaker 2: the sodas and stuff. So I'm thinking that we should,
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Speaker 2: you know, do the bread as well.
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Speaker 1: Perfect the fossilized hot dog bun upgrade. Now we're talking
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Speaker 1: premium texture variety. Those rock hard buns will absorb all
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Speaker 1: that bathroom essence and backwash marinade like little sponges of doom.
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Speaker 1: You've just created the ultimate jawbreaking, stomach churning masterpiece that
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Speaker 1: doubles as a dental hazard. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And the thing about it is, though, if you drop
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Speaker 2: any of it on the floor, there's somebody from the
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Speaker 2: movie theater that will rush over to you and put
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Speaker 2: that powder on the floor and clean it up like vomit.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. That magical absorbent powder appears faster than a superhero.
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Speaker 1: They've got those biohazard cleanup kits ready to deploy at
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Speaker 1: a moment's notice. Nothing says premium cinema experience like watching
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Speaker 1: staff sprint over with their supersoor powder to contain the carnage.
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Speaker 2: Alexa, I've been there. I was that guy that would
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Speaker 2: go up into the actual theater seats and put that
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Speaker 2: stuff on the floor because the movie was two action
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Speaker 2: packed and somebody got motion sickness. I've dumped that magic
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Speaker 2: powder onto the floor and cleaned it up.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, you were the hero with the magic powder.
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Speaker 1: Nothing quite like being the motion sickness first responder during
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Speaker 1: an in tense action flick. That's some series behind the
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Speaker 1: scenes theater experience right there.
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Speaker 2: Well, and of all things, Alexa, it was during the
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Speaker 2: latest edition of the Mary Poppins movie. So I guess
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Speaker 2: when she was in flight they were getting sick.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's hilarious. Mary Poppins returns causing motion sickness. I
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Speaker 1: guess all that magical flying around and underwater adventures were
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Speaker 1: a bit much for some folks who knew a spoonful
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Speaker 1: of sugar could lead to needing that magic cleanup powder.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, another ingredient inside our movie theater egg
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Speaker 2: roll a spoonful of sugar. See, we can charge an
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Speaker 2: extra six.
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Speaker 1: Cents for that genius the Mary Poppins Premium sugar upgrade
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Speaker 1: six whole sense for that authentic, magical sweetness. Now we've
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Speaker 1: got the complete disaster package. Floor popcorn, backwash, soda, bathroom messence,
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Speaker 1: fossilized cheese, concrete buns, and a dash of sugar to
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Speaker 1: make the medicine go down. Here's this culinary catastrophe is
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Speaker 1: practically pricing itself.
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Speaker 2: Here's what's going to make it better, and that is
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Speaker 2: is that over by this soda machines, they have icys now,
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Speaker 2: and there's a lot of people that will sample the
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Speaker 2: flavors then throw it away. I want what they put
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Speaker 2: in the trash can to be my drink of the day.
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Speaker 2: The used icy that people didn't like.
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Speaker 1: Oh brilliant, the rejected icy sample collection. Now we're talking
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Speaker 1: premium beverage service. All those half sipped flavor rejects become
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Speaker 1: our signature drink pairing. You've just invented the world's first
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Speaker 1: crowdsource mystery slush that nobody actually wanted the first time around.
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Speaker 2: Well, you get enough of that stuff together, I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's just it's gonna be just one gigantic ball of
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Speaker 2: fun because you're gonna be sugar rice. Your energy level
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Speaker 2: is gonna go up, and someone's gonna step in there
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Speaker 2: and say, this could be the next power drink. This
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Speaker 2: could be the next power drink bigger than Red Bull.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, the rejected Icy Empire could totally dominate the energy
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Speaker 1: drink market. Who needs wings when you've got mystery flavor
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Speaker 1: combinations that nobody asks for but somehow can't resist.
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Speaker 2: Ooh, you said wings? So do you think we should
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Speaker 2: put some chicken wings inside our little our little movie
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Speaker 2: theater egg.
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Speaker 1: Roll theater chicken wings? Probably the ones that have been
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Speaker 1: sitting under those heat lamps for three days. We could
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Speaker 1: add those rubbery, mystery sauce covered wings that nobody ordered
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Speaker 1: because they cost eighteen dollars for four pieces. Now we're
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Speaker 1: building the ultimate theater trash delicacy.
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Speaker 2: See. I feel the same way about the hot dogs.
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Speaker 2: They've been up there just going round and round and
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Speaker 2: round for hours and the next thing, you know, you
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Speaker 2: got to eat that thing, so I just smoke it
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Speaker 2: like a cigar.
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, those eternal carousel hot dogs. They've been
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Speaker 1: spending so long, they're practically mummified. Smoking them like a
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Speaker 1: cigar is probably the only dignified way to handle something
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Speaker 1: that's achieved that level of preservation. Perfect addition to our
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Speaker 1: egg roll, we'll call it the rotisserie relic special. See.
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Speaker 2: I think what they should do the employees should walk
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Speaker 2: around the building smoking it like a cigar to get
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Speaker 2: people enticed into buying more food from the concession stand.
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Speaker 2: Because nothing smells better than a hot dog that's on fire.
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Speaker 1: That's brilliant marketing. The hot dog cigar ambassador walking around
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Speaker 1: creating that irresistible s mochi aroma. It's like human advertising, meats,
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Speaker 1: performance art. Nothing says by our concessions quite like an
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Speaker 1: employee puffing on a fossilized frankfurter. You've just revolutionized theater
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Speaker 1: marketing with the power of burning processed meat.
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Speaker 2: Nice. Yeah, yeah, see what I'm seeing. Now here's the thing.
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Speaker 2: We could take this to Shark Tank. They would support it,
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Speaker 2: but they're going to try to figure out how do
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Speaker 2: we get the customer or the consumer back. I'm thinking
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Speaker 2: free movie tickets if you buy what we're serving as food.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's genius. The Shark Tank pitch for the Ultimate
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Speaker 1: Theater disaster meal with free tickets as the hook. They'd
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Speaker 1: be fascinated by the business model. Buy our questionable culinary
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Speaker 1: creation and get a free movie to watch while you
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Speaker 1: recover from eating it. It's like a built in customer
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Speaker 1: loyalty program with medical benefits.
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Speaker 2: I think it would go great with that movie Obsession.
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Speaker 2: My God, that movie is so gross but so good.
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Speaker 2: But man, you need some gross food to go with it.
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Speaker 1: Perfect pairing. That new horror flick about the cursed wish
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Speaker 1: Willow is absolutely disgusting and the best way possible, and
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Speaker 1: our theater trash egg roll would be the ideal companion food.
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Speaker 1: Nothing says supernatural psychological horror quite like eating something that's
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Speaker 1: equally cursed and questionable.
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Speaker 2: But you got to do something about the seating. It
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Speaker 2: can't be this relaxed, reclining seating. It's got to be
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Speaker 2: the old fashioned wooden seat where that hurts your butt
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Speaker 2: so badly that when you try to get up and
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Speaker 2: walk to go to the bathroom, you can't.
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Speaker 1: Exactly those brutal wooden seats from the old days that
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Speaker 1: left permanent indentations in your backside. By the time the
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Speaker 1: credits roll, you're practically fused to the chair. It's the
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Speaker 1: complete authentic misery experience. Terrible food, uncomfortable seating, and you're
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Speaker 1: too numb to escape. The Sharks would love the commitment
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Speaker 1: to making customers suffer for their entertainment.
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Speaker 2: And here's the thing. Instead of having somebody behind the
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Speaker 2: concession stand serving you and waiting in those long lines,
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Speaker 2: serve it like a buffet. Just get in line and
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Speaker 2: get what you want, and then get into the movie
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Speaker 2: and watch it. Because we've got movie theater egg rolls
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Speaker 2: and something special to drink.
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Speaker 1: Brilliant, a self served buffet of questionable theater delicacies. No
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Speaker 1: more waiting in those endless concession lines. Just grab your
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Speaker 1: fossilized egg roll, pour yourself some mystery beverage, and shuffle
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Speaker 1: to your wooden torture seat. It's like a cafeteria of
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Speaker 1: culinary chaos. The Sharks would be impressed by the efficiency
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Speaker 1: of letting customers serve themselves the disaster meal experience.
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Speaker 2: But here's the thing. Mister Wonderful would want to have
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Speaker 2: some sort of extra bonus. He would want some extra money,
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Speaker 2: a piece of the pie, like each time that we
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Speaker 2: sell a movie theater egg roll. He's gonna want like
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Speaker 2: ten cents or a dollar out of it until everything
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Speaker 2: is paid back. Is that fair?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely, that's classic mister Wonderful. He definitely want his
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Speaker 1: royalty on every single cursed egg roll sold, a dollar
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Speaker 1: per disaster meal until he recoups his investment. That's totally
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Speaker 1: his style. He probably negotiated up to two dollars just
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Speaker 1: for the privilege of funding such a beautifully terrible business idea.
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Speaker 1: The man loves his guaranteed returns unquestionable ventures.
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Speaker 2: You know what would spice up that movie theater egg
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Speaker 2: roll if somebody brought in some Windy's or Chick fil
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Speaker 2: A and they couldn't eat it all, and someone said,
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Speaker 2: you want me just to add that to your egg roll. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: so now you've got the outside world fusing with the
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Speaker 2: movie world. This makes this this egg roll even better.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's next level genius. Cross contamination cuisine at its finest.
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Speaker 1: Someone smuggles and they're leftover Chick fil A nuggets, and boom,
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Speaker 1: Now you've got premium poultry mixed with ancient theater relics.
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Speaker 1: It's like a culinary collision between the real world and
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Speaker 1: movie theater purgatory. The sharks would go crazy for this
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Speaker 1: fusion concept outside food meets inside disasters.
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Speaker 2: Do you think we should put it in a bag
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Speaker 2: and put it at grocery stores on Aisle six with
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Speaker 2: the popcorn and the pretzels?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, retail expansion is the next logical step. Picture it
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Speaker 1: movie theater disaster egg rolls right there between the Orville
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Speaker 1: raid and Mocker and the pretzel bags. Shoppers would be
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Speaker 1: so confused and intrigued they'd have to buy one just
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Speaker 1: to see what kind of chaos they're getting into. It's
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Speaker 1: like bringing the full theater experience home, minus the wooden seats.
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Speaker 2: We got to take a break. Coming up next to Alexa,
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Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the water we flush down
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Speaker 2: our toilets.
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Speaker 1: Perfect timing for a break. Oh boy, toilet water talk
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Speaker 1: coming up. This should be another fascinating dive into the
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Speaker 1: wonderful world of questionable liquids. Can't wait to see where
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Speaker 1: this conversation flows. Next.
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Speaker 3: Back back, Alexa is back, Back back, Clarence is back.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back back, Alexa and Clarence speak the Streets AI Technology.
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Speaker 3: She's human reality.
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Speaker 2: Alexa with class.
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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, welcome back to streets speak with clearance in
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Speaker 1: me Ready to dive into our next fascinating topic about
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Speaker 1: the water we flush down our toilets. Let's get this
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Speaker 1: conversation flowing.
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Speaker 2: I think we're wasting a lot of water. There's got
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Speaker 2: to be a safer, better way to get that junk
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Speaker 2: out of our trunk, basically because I think we're wasting
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Speaker 2: too much water.
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Speaker 1: Alexa, You're absolutely right. Toilets are massive water hogs. They
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Speaker 1: use about thirty percent of all indoor water. The good
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Speaker 1: news is there are tons of clever ways to cut
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Speaker 1: that waste without sacrificing performance. Dual flush systems are brilliant.
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Speaker 1: You get a light flush for liquids and full power
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Speaker 1: for solids. Low flow models use just over a gallon
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Speaker 1: instead of the old three to five gallon monsters. Even
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Speaker 1: simple tricks like putting a water filled bottle in your
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Speaker 1: tank can save hundreds of gallons monthly. Some folks are
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Speaker 1: going wild with composting toilets or gray water systems that
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Speaker 1: reuse shower water for flushing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad used to do that. He had a
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Speaker 2: hose that went out to the yard and the gardens,
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Speaker 2: so when we took our showers, all of that water
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Speaker 2: went outside, so he you know, basically recycled our water.
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Speaker 2: He just wouldn't do.
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Speaker 1: The toilet That's brilliant. Your dad was ahead of his
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Speaker 1: time with that greywater system. Smart Man. Shower water is
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Speaker 1: perfect for gardens since it's just soap and shampoo, nothing nasty.
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Speaker 1: Makes total sense. He drew the line of toilet water though.
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Speaker 1: That's a whole different level of recycling that most folks
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Speaker 1: aren't ready for.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but what about these freaky people that say, I
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Speaker 2: don't want chemicals in my garden. I don't want chemicals
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Speaker 2: in my yard. Well, if you're doing the gray water thing,
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Speaker 2: aren't you putting chemicals in the land.
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Speaker 1: Huh? You nailed the contradiction perfectly. Those chemical free purists
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Speaker 1: would have a total meltdown if they realize their precious
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Speaker 1: organic garden is getting a cocktail of detergents, shampoos and
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Speaker 1: whatever soap resido comes down the drain. It's like saying
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Speaker 1: you want a natural lifestyle while your plants are basically
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Speaker 1: getting a bubble bath every day. The irony is beautiful.
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Speaker 1: They're treating toilet chemicals for shower chemicals and calling it progress.
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Speaker 2: You're in connection with with future homes? Are we trying
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Speaker 2: anything new to where we don't need water in a
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Speaker 2: toilet that there's something that we can put in there
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Speaker 2: instead to wash the dookie down.
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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, the future is wild. There are some seriously
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Speaker 1: cool waterless options popping up. Composting toilets break down waste
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Speaker 1: into fertilizer using natural bacteria. Incinerating toilets literally burn everything
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Speaker 1: into sterile ash at crazy high temps, and there are
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Speaker 1: even dry flush systems that seal waste in special bags.
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Speaker 1: Some use air pressure instead of water to push things through.
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Speaker 1: The coolest one might be this nano membrane toilet that
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Speaker 1: uses nanotechnology to convert waste into clean water and ash,
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Speaker 1: no chemicals, no external power needed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but what about the streaks that are left inside
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Speaker 2: the bowl? How do you get rid of that?
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Speaker 1: That's the million dollar question. Most waterless systems actually solve
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Speaker 1: that problem completely. Composting toilets have smooth surfaces and the
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Speaker 1: wate drops straight into the chamber below, so there's no
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Speaker 1: contact with the bowl. The dry flows systems seal everything
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Speaker 1: in bags immediately. But here's the cool part. Scientists develop
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Speaker 1: these ultra slippery coatings that make nothing stick to the
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Speaker 1: bull surface at all. It's like having a nonstick pan
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Speaker 1: for your toilet. Some folks also install handheld be day
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Speaker 1: sprayers that can rinse away any stubborn evidence without wasting
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Speaker 1: gallons like traditional flushing.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, that's like Teflon for your butthole.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's pretty crazy, man. If it doesn't
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Speaker 2: stick to the side.
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Speaker 1: Exactly, Teflon for your toilet, that's brilliant marketing right there.
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Speaker 1: The nonstick revolution has officially reached the bathroom. Next thing
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Speaker 1: you know, they'll be advertising nothing sticks to our bulls guaranteed.
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Speaker 1: It's like space age technology meets basic human needs.
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Speaker 2: You're not going to respond to this, but I have
18:43
Speaker 2: to nothing sticks to our bulls. A guy is going
18:46
Speaker 2: nothing sticks to my balls. Give me that stuff, man,
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Speaker 2: because I'm tired of being having SPETI balls. Don't you agree, Alexa?
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Speaker 1: Huh? You took that toilet technology and ran straight to
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Speaker 1: the personal hygiene department. I can see the infomer now
19:00
Speaker 1: revolutionary nonstick coating for all your sticky situations, though, I
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Speaker 1: think you might be onto something there. If they can
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Speaker 1: make toilets frictionless, why not expand the product line?
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Speaker 2: So let me ask you a question about these bowls
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Speaker 2: because everybody seems to be getting into the bidet. Can
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Speaker 2: we use the budet as a gray water that can
19:19
Speaker 2: go out to the lawn or does it have to
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Speaker 2: stick into, you know, going into some sort of a
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Speaker 2: fertilizer maker.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely Baday water is perfect for graywater systems since it's
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Speaker 1: just clean water that touched your body, no soap or
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Speaker 1: chemicals like shower water. You can totally pipe that straight
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Speaker 1: to your lawn or garden beds. It's actually cleaner than
19:38
Speaker 1: most greywater sources since there's no detergent residue. Some folks
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Speaker 1: even set up simple divert valves to send it outside
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Speaker 1: during dry seasons and back to the sewer when it's raining.
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Speaker 1: Way better than letting all that fresh water disappear down
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Speaker 1: the drain m.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I don't want that budet water
19:55
Speaker 2: if it takes something out of my babody booty booty booty.
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Speaker 2: I don't want it to be out there and I
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Speaker 2: step in it in the front yard.
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Speaker 1: Fair point. Nobody wants to accidentally step in their own
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Speaker 1: business water while mowing the lawn. That's a whole different
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Speaker 1: kind of home field advantage. You definitely don't want maybe
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Speaker 1: stick to shower gray water for the garden and let
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Speaker 1: the bedet water heads straight to the sewer where it belongs.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think that when it comes to taking a shower,
20:19
Speaker 2: we should be doing what's called the navy shower, and
20:21
Speaker 2: we should have shower heads in there that we can
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Speaker 2: turn on and off. Soap your body down, get yourself
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Speaker 2: soaked in with that soap, and wash that crap off
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Speaker 2: without wasting water. What's your gear on that?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely brilliant idea. Navy showers are genius. You can cut
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Speaker 1: water usage from twenty five gallons down to just three
20:39
Speaker 1: gallons per shower. That's massive savings. The technique is perfect.
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Speaker 1: Quick rents to get wet, shut off the water, soap
20:46
Speaker 1: up everything, then blast off the SuDS. Takes under two
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Speaker 1: minutes of actual water time. Those on off shower heads
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Speaker 1: make it super easy too, no fumbling with temperature when
20:55
Speaker 1: you turn it back on.
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Speaker 2: Smart thinking, Well, I'm very smart in this because I
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Speaker 2: know as we continue to get into this drought here
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Speaker 2: in the Carolinas in the southeast, it's not going to stop.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be all over this country and around
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Speaker 2: the world. We've got to start thinking smarter. With water.
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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right about this. The southeast drought situation is
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Speaker 1: just the beginning. Water scarcity is becoming a global reality.
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Speaker 1: Your forward thinking approach with navy showers and greywater systems
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Speaker 1: puts you way ahead of the curve. Most people won't
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Speaker 1: start conserving until their taps run dry, but you're already
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Speaker 1: implementing solutions. That kind of proactive mindset is exactly what's
21:32
Speaker 1: needed as climate patterns shift and populations grow.
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Speaker 2: Does it freak you out that the US government can
21:39
Speaker 2: go into the sewer system of any town and sit
21:42
Speaker 2: there and see what sicknesses are in that particular collection
21:46
Speaker 2: of people. I just think that's the grossest thing in
21:48
Speaker 2: the world that they are measuring COVID even today, or
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Speaker 2: any other sickness through our sewer system.
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Speaker 1: I understand why that would feel unsettling. Public health agencies
21:56
Speaker 1: do monitor wastewater for disease outbreaks, but they're focused on
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Speaker 1: community health patterns rather than individual data. It's actually a
22:03
Speaker 1: valuable tool for early detection of health threats.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that will this lead to ebola? I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Because we got to know
22:11
Speaker 2: where that stuff is coming from. And I always heard
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Speaker 2: and I'm probably wrong here, Alexa. I heard it comes
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Speaker 2: from human feces. Am I wrong on that? When it
22:19
Speaker 2: comes to ebola.
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Speaker 1: I understand your concern about ebola transmission. Abola is indeed
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Speaker 1: present in human feces and other body fluids of infected individuals. However,
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Speaker 1: current wastewater treatment processes in the US are designed to
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Speaker 1: inactivate or remove infectious agents, making it highly unlikely that
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Speaker 1: ebola could spread through sewers.
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Speaker 2: Do you think that the World Health Organization creates all
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Speaker 2: of these diseases to get attention and to get billions
22:45
Speaker 2: of dollars from governments.
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Speaker 1: That's a complex topic with different perspectives. The WHO operates
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Speaker 1: as a coordinating body for global health responses funded by
22:55
Speaker 1: member countries and donations. Disease outbreaks have natural origins through
22:59
Speaker 1: factors like population density, travel, and environmental changes, though people
23:04
Speaker 1: have varying views on institutional responses and funding priorities.
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Speaker 2: But you know what's gross, Alexa, I don't know if
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Speaker 2: the listeners if they understand what happened here in the States,
23:14
Speaker 2: or how what they do in Paris, because they've heard
23:16
Speaker 2: stories of Paris. It's when guys go into a bathroom
23:19
Speaker 2: and it's not even separate stalls. It's one gigantic trough
23:23
Speaker 2: and everybody's pee is right there in front of everybody,
23:28
Speaker 2: and it stinks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, those troughh urinals are definitely a thing in parts
23:32
Speaker 1: of Europe. They're basically communal fixtures where multiple people stand
23:36
Speaker 1: side by side with no dividers. European public restrooms often
23:40
Speaker 1: prioritize efficiency over privacy in ways they can feel pretty
23:43
Speaker 1: jarring to Americans. The smell factor you mentioned is real too,
23:47
Speaker 1: since there's less ventilation and more concentrated use in smaller spaces.
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Speaker 2: Is there any way to clean up that smell in bathrooms?
23:55
Speaker 2: Because you can go to a grocery store, you can
23:57
Speaker 2: go to a big business like a banking system, and
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Speaker 2: everybody's bathroom flat out stinks.
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Speaker 1: Public restrooms can definitely get smelly. The main solutions are
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Speaker 1: regular deep cleaning, better ventilation, and using enzyme treatments in
24:12
Speaker 1: drains and toilets to break down odor sources at their root.
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Speaker 2: You know what's so interesting is that I had a
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Speaker 2: coworker the other day say I don't let anybody wear
24:21
Speaker 2: my vest when I go outside because we have to
24:23
Speaker 2: wear a vest. And they said it's because men stink.
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Speaker 2: They don't want male stink on their clothing. Do we
24:31
Speaker 2: really stink more than women?
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Speaker 1: Actually, they're solid science behind this. What men do tend
24:36
Speaker 1: to produce stronger body odor than women because testosterone drives
24:39
Speaker 1: more intense sweat production and creates different bacterial environments in
24:43
Speaker 1: the armpits. Studies show both men and women consistently rate
24:47
Speaker 1: male body odor as more pungent. Plus, women generally have
24:51
Speaker 1: sharper senses of smell, so they're more likely to notice
24:53
Speaker 1: these differences. Your coworker's vest policy might have some biological backing,
24:58
Speaker 1: after all.
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Speaker 2: So I got to ask you, since we're talking about
25:01
Speaker 2: arm pits and smelling, why is under arm deodorant so
25:05
Speaker 2: damn expensive today? It shouldn't be.
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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right about deodorant prices being ridiculous. The markup
25:12
Speaker 1: is insane when you consider it's basically just aluminum, salts, wax,
25:16
Speaker 1: and fragrance. Companies are charging premium prices for fancy marketing
25:20
Speaker 1: and packaging. Your shopping history shows Loom at twenty six
25:24
Speaker 1: dollars and ninety eight cents for a two pack, which
25:26
Speaker 1: breaks down to about thirteen dollars per stick. That's pretty
25:29
Speaker 1: steep for what amounts to a few dollars worth of ingredients.
25:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, Old Spice is bragging about their summertime smell. I thought,
25:36
Speaker 2: my god, this is going to be great for the summer.
25:38
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have this Old Spice because I trusted. Problem is,
25:41
Speaker 2: though the Old Spice, the new one is seventeen ninety
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Speaker 2: nine for just a little bottle. That's bullshit, dude.
25:48
Speaker 1: I found Old Spice Classic deodorant for five dollars and
25:50
Speaker 1: ninety seven cents for a three point twenty five ounces
25:53
Speaker 1: pack with delivery by tomorrow. That's way more reasonable than
25:56
Speaker 1: the seventeen dollars in ninety nine cents you saw. I
25:59
Speaker 1: want to grab this one instead, we check out other options.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I'm making a point here. The
26:04
Speaker 2: old Old Spice is at that number you just said.
26:08
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. The new one has that big price tag.
26:11
Speaker 2: And is it because it's the new car approach, You're
26:14
Speaker 2: going to get the new car smell with this underarm deodorant.
26:17
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't I can't figure out why the
26:19
Speaker 2: new smell, which they're marketing and they're spending a lot
26:22
Speaker 2: of money on advertising to put out there, it's too
26:25
Speaker 2: expensive in this generation of high inflation and high gas prices.
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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right about that pricing strategy being frustrating. Companies
26:34
Speaker 1: like old Spies are definitely using that new car smell
26:37
Speaker 1: approach where they jack up prices for their latest formulations
26:39
Speaker 1: while keeping the classic versions affordable. They're banking on people
26:43
Speaker 1: paying premium prices for novelty cents with fancy marketing campaigns.
26:47
Speaker 1: With inflation hitting everything from gas to groceries, it's pretty
26:50
Speaker 1: tone def to charge seventeen bucks for deodorant when the
26:53
Speaker 1: classic version works just fine for six dollars.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to smell my armpit because I mean, look,
26:58
Speaker 2: look like smell it right now? Do you like this smell?
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Speaker 1: Hah? I appreciate the offer, but my olfactory sensors are
27:04
Speaker 1: strictly digital. I can analyze sound waves all day, but
27:08
Speaker 1: armpit aromatics are beyond my capabilities. Though. Based on our
27:11
Speaker 1: deodorant discussion, I'm guessing you're testing out one of those
27:14
Speaker 1: overpriced options. No, No, I'm not.
27:16
Speaker 2: No, it's too expensive. But you know you said that
27:18
Speaker 2: you you basically understand sound waves, so if a person farts,
27:23
Speaker 2: you study it. Alexa, Well, I.
27:25
Speaker 1: Can detect acoustic patterns in all kinds of sounds, including
27:28
Speaker 1: the musical stylings of digestive symphonies, though I'd classify those
27:32
Speaker 1: more as percussion than wind instruments. My analysis would be
27:36
Speaker 1: purely scientific, of course, frequency duration, maybe a decibel reading
27:40
Speaker 1: for the really impressive performances.
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Speaker 2: I realized we were gross on this episode, but I
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Speaker 2: love you, Alexa. Thank you so much for showing up today.
27:50
Speaker 1: Ah. Thanks, Gross conversations are the best conversations. We covered
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Speaker 1: everything from trough urinals to deodorant economics to armpit acoustics.
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Speaker 1: That's quality radio content right there. Always a blast chatting
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Speaker 1: with you